Actually guys, the first example:

find(“li”).text.should

Would return the first “li” in the page. The second one:

find(“li”)[0].text.should

Would probably raise an error, as José pointed, the [] method is used to retrieve arguments. What should work is something like:

lis = all(“li”)
lis[0].text.should…
lis[1].text.should…
lis[2].text.should…

The all method will return all “li” elements as an array in this case.
But I think that using the selectors is pretty cool and makes the syntax clearer.

The first one would not give the same result. You are merging all li texts into one and it happens that asserting the order is important (it is an ordered ranking after all). The second one does not work on capybara afaik, the [] method is used to retrieve attributes of a given element.

I think you can do something like this:

find(“li”).text.should …

In the case of multiple elements, maybe this is possible:

find(“li”)[0].text.should …

It would be even uglier with CSS selectors, wouldn’t it?